The reckoning: the future of the Venezuelan Revolution. By Mike Gonzales (International Socialism, Issue 143, Summer 2014). “For the moment the great collective impulse of the early days of Chavismo has given way to a kind of passivity, a politics determined and dictated from above that serves only the interests of an entrenched, self-serving ruling bureaucracy.”

Chávez obituary: man, myth and legacy. By Nick Rogers (Weekly Worker, Issue 953, March 14, 2013). “The key question for socialists and communists in drawing up a balance sheet of Chávez’s legacy is … the relationship between Chávez and the popular movement that sustained him, ie the balance of class power.”

What is Hugo Chávez’s legacy? By Jeffery R. Webber (SocialistWorker.org, March 8, 2013). “To his wealthy and light-skinned enemies, he was evil incarnate. To many of Venezuela’s poor, he was one of their own.”

Chávez – no hero of ours. By Pablo Velasco (Workers’ Liberty, 7 March 2013). “Chávez’s ‘socialism’ was from above, a mix of pan-Latin American nationalism combined with the use of social welfare spending to build and expand his social base in Venezuelan society.”

Hugo Chavez and me: challenging the Washington consensus. By Tariq Ali (CounterPunch, March 7, 2013). “What of the country he leaves behind? A paradise? Certainly not. How could it be, given the scale of the problems? But he leaves behind a very changed society in which the poor felt they had an important stake in the government.”

Hugo Chavez 1954-2013. By Mike Gonzales (Socialist Worker, 6 March 2013). “He left behind a language of liberation and solidarity, but the structures to turn them into a new and different kind of society have yet to be built”. Links to further reading from International Socialism.

Chávez’s chief legacy: building, with people, an alternative society to capitalism. By Marta Harnecker (MRZine, 06.03.13). “Building with people, for Chávez, meant winning their hearts and minds for a new social project. And this cannot be done by preaching, it can only be done through practice.”

The legacy of Hugo Chávez. By Derrick O’Keefe (SocialistWorker.org, March 6, 2013). “Today, I would rather celebrate the majority of Venezuelans – especially the poor and the marginalized. It is, after all, the people who made Chavez, and not the other way around.” With links to other tributes to Chávez + to background on the Venezuelan revolution.

The end of Chavismo? (Michael Roberts Blog, March 6, 2013). “What does the future hold for Chavismo? Any new government will be desperate to sustain revenue and to see oil prices remain as high as possible. The power to achieve that, however, lies elsewhere and in economic terms Venezuela is a price taker.”

El comandante has left the building. By Pepe Escobar (Asia Times Online, March 6, 2013). “He always praised everyone from Mao to Che in the revolutionary pantheon. He certainly was a very skillful popular leader with a fine geopolitical eye to identify centuries-old patterns of subjugation of Latin America.”

On the legacy of Hugo Chávez. By Greg Grandin (The Nation, March 5, 2013). “Critics disparage him as a strongman, but Chávez leaves behind what might be the most democratic country in the Western Hemisphere.” With links to a selection of The Nation’s reporting on Chávez and Venezuela.

Hugo Chávez is dead. By Louis Proyect (The Unrepentant Marxist, March 5, 2013). “Venezuelan leader leaves legacy of literacy and healthcare for poor alongside crumbling infrastructure and dependence on oil.”

Se også:

Down from the Mountain. By Greg Grandin (London Review of Books, Vol.39, No.13, 29 June 2017). Review of Hugo Chávez and Ignacio Ramonet, Chávez, My First Life (Verso, 2016, 544 p.). “A series of interviews conducted with Ignacio Ramonet between 2008 and 2011 … [the books] ends on the threshold of Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution, with his 1998 election.”

Venezuela: What’s going on? — an interview with Jeffery Webber (Against the Current, Issue 185, November-December 2016). “The economic collapse in Venezuela, and the appalling social crisis and desintegration of the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’, is widely reported but only thinly analyzed in the media. We explore here some of the background and dynamics of the disaster.”

Venezuela: for sale to the highest bidder? By Mike Gonzalez (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism for the 21st Century, October 14, 2016, 19 p.). “His article explores changes to the system, and the growth of a new ruling class around President Maduro following the death of Hugo Chavez.”

Venezuela after Chávez (New Left Review, Issue 99, May-June 2016). Interview with Julia Buxton: “As Nicolás Maduro clings on to the presidency, a leading analyst discusses the crumbling of Chavista hegemony and a revival of the right amid collapsing oil revenues, a malfunctioning economy, street protests, and the long-term corruption of state structures.”

Venezuelan economic and social performance under Hugo Chávez, in graphs. By Jake Johnston and Sara Kozameh (Venezuelanalysis.com, March 10, 2013). “Below is a series of graphs that illustrate the economic and social changes that have taken place in Venezuela during this time period [after 14 years in office].”